August 2015

I personally really like CloneDB, a way to thin-clone an Oracle database over NFS. This can be quite interesting, and I wanted to update my blog for 12.1.0.2.3 (April PSU). Tim Hall has a good example for 11.2.0.2 and later with further references.

August 3, 2015 (Updated August 5, 2015, August 10, 2015, August 29, 2015) (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) I have been testing Windows 10 under the Windows Insider Program for several months using an old Dell Precision Core 2 Extreme computer (with NVidia graphics card) that was retired from engineering service a […]

After 15 hours of sleep I still managed to feel tired. I went for breakfast at 6:30, then started to feel a little weird, so I took some headache pills and headed back to bed for a hour before meeting up with Debra and Mike to head down to the venue for the first day of the UYOUG leg of the tour…

In this post, we’re going to use Delphix to create a virtual ASM diskgroup, and provision a clone of the virtual ASM diskgroup to a target system. I call it vASM, which is pronounced “vawesome.” Let’s make it happen.

She’s always hungry. She always needs to feed. She must eat. – Gollum

Most viewers assume Gollum was talking about Shelob the giant spider here, but I have it on good authority that he was actually talking about Delphix. You see, Delphix (Data tamquam servitium in trinomial nomenclature) is the world’s most voracious datavore. Simply put, Delphix eats all the data.

One of the articles I wrote for redgate’s AllthingsOracle site some time ago included a listing of the data distribution for some client data which I had camouflaged. A recent comment on the article asked how I had generated the data – of course the answer was that I hadn’t generated it, but I had done something to take advantage of its existence without revealing the actual values. This article is just a little note showing what I did; it’s not intended as an elegant and stylish display of perfectly optimised SQL, it’s an example of a quick and dirty one-off hack that wasn’t (in my case) a disaster to run.

I’ve based the demonstration on the view all_objects. We start with a simple query showing the distribution of the values of column object_type:

After the quick flight to Montevideo, I was met by Edelwisse and Nelson. A couple of minutes later Mike Dietrich arrived. You know, that guy that pretends to understand upgrades! We drove over to the hotel, arriving at about 11:00. Check in was not until 15:00, so I had to wait a few minutes for them to prep my room. The others were going out to get some food, but I had a hot date with my bed. I got to my room, showered and hit the hay.